NWHN Privacy Policy

October 21, 2008

 

At the National Women’s Health Network (NWHN) we take your privacy very seriously and are committed to protecting it.  Our primary goal of collecting information from our members and donors is to ensure a smooth and secure experience while you visit our website.

 

We maintain the privacy of your non-public information using security technologies and adhere to policies that prevent unauthorized use of your personal information. This disclosure discusses the information and the manner in which that information is used. The policy refers to visitors to the website www.nwhn.org and to healthquestions@nwhn.org.

 

What personal information do we collect, and how is it used?

 

We collect personal information such as name, billing address, email address, in order to send email alerts, enable you to sign up for our bimonthly newsletters, order a publication, or be assisted by the Women’s Health Voice information service. For email alerts, we only require email address, state and zip code; all other information is optional. We only gather information for you if you provide it voluntarily, and we use it only to send you communications from NWHN. We may also use that information to let you know about our other programs, events, and involvement with the organization. If for any reason you would like to be removed from our email list, or choose to opt out of receiving more information, you can unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link present in all of our messages, or by replying to sender with “remove” in the subject line. We also use your information on an aggregated basis to do such things as operate our site and statistically analyze site usage, including the behavior of our visitors, to improve the content, layout and upgrade the nwhn.org site.

 

Does NWHN.org share my information?

 

We will not sell or rent your non-public information to any individual, business, government or organization (eg. name, address, email, phone number). As a general rule, except as otherwise contemplated in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose identifiable information without your permission or under special circumstances, such as when a law requires it. If personally identifiable data about you will be shared; we will tell you, whenever possible, before we transfer the data.

 

Disclosure

 

We do not use or disclose to any outside companies information about your individual visits to NWHN.org.

 

Cookies

 

When you connect to our website, we do not store a cookie on your computer.

 

Privacy policy changes

 

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone.

 

Contacting the website

 

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, they can be directed to Beverly Thomas at bthomas@nwhn.org or NWHN, 1413 K Street NW Washington D.C. 20005.